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>Table of Contents:
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>   Multi-viewpoint interactive movie                                               
>     hidenori watanave <derin@lovelink.co.jp>                                        
>
>   COSIGN 2001                                                                     
>     Andy Clarke <andy@kinonet.com>                                                  
>
>   Babel announcement                                                              
>     Simon Biggs <simon@babar.demon.co.uk>                                           
>
>   env1 [dev]                                                                      
>     ----------@ctrlaltdel.org                                                       
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>   http://meta.am/        arp.wsh                                                  
>     m e t a <meta@meta.am>                                                          
>
>   Fw: postdoc opportunity in Canada (fwd)                                         
>     "Jen Budney" <jbudney@chat.carleton.ca>                                         
>
>   THE PERFORMER AND THE MEDIATED IMAGE                                            
>     Marieke Istha <istha@montevideo.nl>                                             
>
>   NEW SYNERGIES IN DIGITAL CREATIVITY                                             
>     "David Garcia" <davidg@xs4all.nl>                                               
>
>   Critical Space                                                                  
>     Yukihiko Yoshida <yukihiko@sfc.keio.ac.jp>                                      
>
>   Media Circus is almost here!                                                    
>     karen eli0t <fragments@va.com.au>                                               
>
>   conference registration                                                         
>     Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll@adelaide.edu.au>                         
>
>   Call for Papers - FLUXUS                                                        
>     Ken Friedman <ken.friedman@bi.no>                                               
>
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>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 03:00:26 +0900
>From: hidenori watanave <derin@lovelink.co.jp>
>Subject: Multi-viewpoint interactive movie
>
>hello everyone,
>I made multi-viewpoint QTVR using shockwave.
>
>[doublady] Quicktime and Shockwave are required.
>http://member.nifty.ne.jp/derin/qtvr/dcr/index.html
>
>A visitor can get the space consciousness of the 360 circumferences by
>combining the two same movies and synchronizing them. At this time, the
>image of the female body is mapped on 3D-Model of trans-architecture
>which I created. 
>In the future, more extension of  consciousness is also induced by
>making two movies of perpendicular and level rotation synchronize.
>and  I also consider the project which obtains composite-consciousness
>of space that the image sampled from actual city space and an abstract
>image ..., for example, [0128d], 
>http://member.nifty.ne.jp/derin/qtvr/harajuku/index.html
>is combined.
>
>- --
>
>I appreciate two online magazines [Neural Online] and [Content-Wire.com]
>which introduced my project. Thank you very much.
>
>- -- 
>++ hidenori watanave (26)
>A) 3d-graffitist @ Lovelink
>B) Kyoto Univ.of Art'n Design
>C) Asagaya college of Art'n Design
>++
>http://member.nifty.ne.jp/derin/
>09098352695
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:48:38 +0100
>From: Andy Clarke <andy@kinonet.com>
>Subject: COSIGN 2001
>
>***********************************************
>***********************************************
>
>     COSIGN 2001
>
>     1st International Conference on
>     COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS IN GAMES
>     AND NEW MEDIA
>
>     http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001
>
>     CWI, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
>
>     10th September - 12th September, 2001
>
>***********************************************
>***********************************************
>
>          REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
>
>   http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/Cosign2001
>
>***********************************************
>***********************************************
>
>
>
>REGISTRATION DETAILS
>====================
>
>Registration is now open for COSIGN 2001: Computational Semiotics in Games
>and New Media. There are discounts for early registration and special
>student rates. Details can be found at:
>
>
>http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/Cosign2001
>
>
>Early registration is encouraged, and attendees are advised to book their
>hotel rooms well in advance due to the limited amount of accommodation
>available in Amsterdam. Links to hotel listings are available on the main
>conference website:
>
>
>http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001
>
>
>The programme for the conference will be posted to this website shortly.
>
>
>
>CONFERENCE SCOPE
>================
>
>This cross-disciplinary conference explores the ways in which semiotics
>(and related theories such as structuralism and post-structuralism) can be
>applied to creating and analysing computer-based media. It is intended for
>anyone with an interest in areas of overlap (or potential overlap) between
>semiotics and interactive digital media - including artists, designers,
>critics, computer scientists, HCI, AI and VR practitioners, semioticians,
>narratologists and new media practitioners.
>
>Computational semiotics is understood here to be the application of
>semiotic theories to interactive digital media and has three main areas
>(which overlap). They are:
>
>
>* The way in which meaning can be created by, encoded in, or understood by,
>  the computer (using systems or techniques based upon semiotics).
>
>
>* The way in which meaning in interactive digital media is understood by the
>  viewer or user (again using systems or techniques based upon semiotics).
>
>
>* The use of semiotics as the starting point for a system for looking
>  critically at the content of interactive digital media - devising a critical
>  framework equivalent in status and depth to art theory or academic film
>  criticism.
>
>
>Media that make use of the unique capabilities of digital systems are of
>particular interest to this conference. These include: computer games,
>interactive narratives and other forms of interactive entertainment;
>interactive video; virtual reality systems and virtual environments; and
>hypermedia.
>
>In addition to academic and theoretical papers, there will be presentations
>by several digital artists of practice-based work relevant to the themes of
>this conference. Selection of these artworks has been based upon their
>relevance to the themes of the conference, their interest in demonstrating
>or exploring the potential of new media, and their challenging of
>perceptions, theoretical assumptions, or understanding in any areas related
>to the conference.
>
>
>
>CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
>====================
>
>The conference brings together academic papers and posters from as far
>afield as the USA, Australia, Japan, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Italy,
>Germany, Brazil, and the UK. Topics covered include: the aesthetics of
>virtual environments; the production of place in role-playing games;
>semiotic and non-semiotic MUD performance; literary theory and computer
>games; the design of interactive narratives; the mapping of movement to
>sound; web-based documentaries; the design of content management systems;
>montage; the semiotics of interface design; etc.
>
>In addition to academic and theoretical papers, there will be presentations
>by several internationally-known digital artists of practice-based work.
>Selection of these artworks has been based upon their relevance to the
>themes of the conference, their interest in demonstrating or exploring the
>potential of new media, and their challenging of perceptions, theoretical
>assumptions, or understanding in any areas related to the conference.
>
>A list of selected papers, posters and artworks can be found on the main
>conference website at http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001
>
>The programme for the conference will be posted on this website shortly.
>
>
>
>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
>====================
>
>Andy Clarke - Kinonet  (UK)
>
>Clive Fencott - University of Teeside (UK)
>
>Craig Lindley - Starlab (Belgium)
>
>Grethe Mitchell - University of East London and Kinonet  (UK)
>
>Frank Nack - CWI (Netherlands)
>
>
>
>ENQUIRIES
>=========
>
>For further information, please contact Dr Frank Nack.
>
>Email:  Frank.Nack@cwi.nl
>Tel:    (+31) 20 592 4223
>Fax:    (+31) 20 592 4312
>
>
>http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001    (main conference website)
>
>http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/Cosign2001    (registration)
>
>
>
>***********************************************
>***********************************************
>end
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>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:31:08 +0100
>From: Simon Biggs <simon@babar.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Babel announcement
>
>PRESS RELEASE
>
>BABEL
>SIMON BIGGS
>
>http://www.babel.uk.net/    going live 13 July 2001
>
>Focal Point Gallery in association with Southend, Essex and Suffolk
>Libraries has commissioned a major new Internet work from artist, Simon
>Biggs. The final site will be linked to the to the online catalogues of the
>partner Libraries and will be exhibited in the form of a large-scale
>projection in libraries around Essex during July and August.
>
>With this project Biggs has been given the opportunity to create a
>site-specific work for a non-physical site. The site for Babel is an
>abstract thing...information space and the classification of knowledge that
>all libraries represent...and which in turn the Internet, where the project
>is primarily realised, is. The challenge for Biggs has been to come up with
>a metaphor that relates directly to the character of this site. The Dewey
>Decimal numbering system, used in the cataloguing of library contents, is
>that metaphor, visualised in a three dimensional multi-user space that is
>itself a metaphor for the infinite nature of information. In Babel the
>Dewey Decimal numbering system is employed as a means to navigate the
>internet itself, the numerical codes mapping onto web-sites that conform
>with the defined subjects.
>
>Babel exists, in the first instance, as a web-site on the world wide web.
>Viewers logged onto the site are confronted with a 3D visualisation of an
>abstract data space mapped as arrays and grids of Dewey Decimal numbers. As
>they move their mouse around their screen they are able to navigate this 3D
>environment. Further to this, all the viewers are able to see what all the
>other viewers, who are simultaneously logged onto the site, are seeing. All
>the multiple 3D views of the data-space are then montaged together into a
>single shared image, where the actions of any one viewer effect what all
>the other viewers see. If a large number of viewers are logged on together
>the information displayed becomes so complex and dense that it breaks down
>into a meaningless, if often beautiful, abstract space.
>
>Viewers are also able to navigate specific Dewey Decimal numbers and as
>they do so a dynamic interface keeps them informed of web-site addresses
>that conform with the subjects defined in the numbering system. Viewers can
>choose to visit any of these sites with a simple point and click of the
>mouse, opening the site in a new window.
>
>Babel also exists as a multi-user installation, either indoors as an
>immersive interactive environment or outdoors as an architectural
>projection. In both cases the work remains located in both the physical
>time and space of the installation site and also on the internet so that
>viewers can interact with those who are both physically and telematically
>present.
>
>The website will be launched on 13 July 2001. A large-scale interactive
>projection of the work can been seen at the following venues:
>
>Please telephone for details of opening times.
>
>14 July - 11 August
>Southend Central Library
>01702 612621
>
>31 July - 5 August 2001
>Public Square (outside Chelmsford Library)
>County Hall
>Chelmsford
>Tel: 01245 492758 (Chelmsford Library)
>
>12 August - 17 August 2001
>Colchester Library
>Tel:  01206 245900
>
>ARTISTS TALK
>2 AUGUST 7.30PM - 9PM
>SOUTHEND CENTRAL LIBRARY
>Simon Biggs will talk about the project Babel and previous work.
>
>Babel has been organised by Focal Point Gallery and funded by a New
>Audiences grant from the Arts Council of England.
>
>
>
>
>
>Simon Biggs
>
>simon@babar.demon.co.uk
>http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
>The Great Wall of China at http://www.greatwall.org.uk/
>
>Research Professor
>Art and Design Research Centre
>School of Cultural Studies
>Sheffield Hallam University
>Sheffield, UK
>http://www.shu.ac.uk/
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:45:54 +0200
>From: ----------@ctrlaltdel.org
>Subject: env1 [dev]
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>name: ctrlaltdel
>version: env1 [dev] wedn 27 june 2001 14:31:57 (CET)
>description: netart project in progress
>content: interactive audio visual browser environment
>navigation: experimental  
>browser: msie 5.0+
>plugin: macromedia shockwave 8+
>url: http://www.ctrlaltdel.org
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>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 07:57:46 -0500
>From: "Jen Budney" <jbudney@chat.carleton.ca>
>Subject: Fw: postdoc opportunity in Canada (fwd)
>
>
>- ----- Original Message ----- 
>From: heidi rimke <hrimke@ccs.carleton.ca>
>To: <soc-anth-grads@ccs.carleton.ca>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:36 AM
>Subject: JOB: postdoc opportunity in Canada (fwd)
>
>
>> 
>> fyi
>> ----
>> > The Surveillance Project, Queen's University
>> >
>> > Please note the following announcement (also on our Department and
>> > Project
>> > web sites) and forward either or both of them to anyone or any group
>> > that
>> > you think may have an interest.  Thank you.
>> >
>> > Post-doctoral Fellowship, Queen's University
>> >
>> > The Surveillance Project, based in the Sociology Department at Queen's
>> > University, seek a post-doctoral fellow to join the team researching
>> > Surveillance, Risk, and Social Ordering in a Global Information
>> > Society,
>> > funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
>> > Canada
>> > under the Knowledge-Based Economy  Strategic Grant theme.
>> >
>> > The successful candidate will develop, construct, and contribute to
>> > projects in conjunction with team members.  These currently include
>> > the
>> > role of surveillance technology, including biometrics, in capturing
>> > the
>> > movement of people across borders; electronic commerce, virtual
>> > worlds,
>> > Internet solicitation and information privacy; the development of
>> > smart
>> > cards in federal and provincial government departments.
>> >
>> > Some knowledge of surveillance and privacy issues is an asset, and
>> > applicants should have social science training, preferably a PhD in
>> > Sociology.  There is a possibility that some teaching opportunities
>> > may be
>> > available during the tenure of the post-doc.
>> >
>> > The position will start in mid-September 2001 with possible renewal
>> > for a
>> > second year in September 2002.  The amount is $26,000 in the first
>> > year.
>> > For more information see
>> > http//qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/intro.html or contact
>> > David
>> > Lyon, lyond@post.queensu.ca
>> >
>> > Please send a curriculum vitae, transcripts, three letters of
>> > reference, a
>> > sample publication or work-in-progress, and a letter of application by
>> > August 15 2001 to David Lyon, The Surveillance Project, Sociology
>> > Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.
>> > Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be considered first.
>> >
>> > Queen's University is committed to employment equity and welcomes
>> > applications from all qualified women and men, including visible
>> > minorities, aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, gay men and
>> > lesbians.
>> 
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:14:05 +0200
>From: Marieke Istha <istha@montevideo.nl>
>Subject: THE PERFORMER AND THE MEDIATED IMAGE
>
>THE PERFORMER AND THE MEDIATED IMAGE
>Workshop in Performance & Media Art
>In collaboration with Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/ Time
>Based Arts
>30 July - 4 August 2001, Amsterdam
>
>We hope that you have received our previous mailing about the ''The
>Performer and the Mediated Image'' workshop which aims to examine
>practically and theoretically the challenges that the usage of various
>multimedia tools have been offering in the performing art. If you would
>like to revisit the details of the course, please visit the website of
>the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University:
>http://www.amsu.edu/courses/performing/perf2.htm from where the
>application form can also be downloaded.
>
>We are pleased to inform you that we have managed to extend the deadline
>of application for the course. The new deadline is 13 July. Applicants
>should return their completed application form including curriculum
>vitae and motivation letter by fax or post to: The Amsterdam-Maastricht
>Summer University PO Box 5066, 1007 RB Amsterdam, The Netherlands / F
>+31 (0)20 624 9368.
>We would like to encourage applicants from Central - and Eastern Europe
>as we can offer some limited number of partial scholarships.
>
>The preliminary programme is as follows:
>Monday 30 July
>10.00 - 13.00   Introduction
>Sally Jane Norman
>14.00 - 17.30   Performance workshop                      Karin Post
>
>Tuesday 31 July
>10.00 - 13.00   Video Art Seminar                               David
>Garcia, Utrecht School of the Arts
>14.00 - 17.30   Sound Seminar                                   Michel
>Waisvisz, STEIM
>
>Wednesday 1 August
>10.00 - 13.00   Sensory Perception Workshop            Eboman
>14.00 - 17.30   Video Workshop                                   Geert
>Mul
>
>Thursday 2 August
>10.00 - 13.00   Interactive Performance Seminar          Chiel
>Kattenbelt, University of  Utrecht, New Media and Digital Culture
>
>14.00 - 17.30   Interactive Performance Workshop        Dogtroep
>
>Friday 3 August
>10.00 - 13.00   Workshop                                           Matt
>Adams, Blast Theory
>14.00 - 17.30   Workshop                                           Rene
>Beekman
>
>Saturday 4 August
>10.00 - 17.30   Discussion      Moderator: Sher Doruff, Society for Old
>and New Media
>
>Should you have any further information, please do not hesitate to
>contact the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University; Postbus 53066, 1007
>RB Amsterdam, The Netherlands T +31 (0)20 620 0225 / F +31 (0)20 624
>9368 / office@amsu.edu www.amsu.edu.
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Netherlands Media Art Institute
>Montevideo/Time Based Arts
>Keizersgracht 264
>1016 EV Amsterdam
>T +31 (0)20 6237101
>F +31 (0)20 6244423
>E info@montevideo.nl
>www.montevideo.nl
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:52:48 +0200
>From: "David Garcia" <davidg@xs4all.nl>
>Subject: NEW SYNERGIES IN DIGITAL CREATIVITY
>
>> THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand
>this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
>
>
>CIRCUS 2001: NEW SYNERGIES IN DIGITAL CREATIVITY
>        INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR
> CONTENT INTEGRATED RESEARCH IN CREATIVE USER SYSTEMS
>
>      Glasgow,  20TH -22ND SEPTEMBER 2001
>
>> + + + + E X T E N D E D   D E A D L I N E + + + + + +
>>
> New Paper Deadline is 15th July 2001 !!!!!
>
> We are also looking for artists, designers, performers to submit any
> works/events/performances/happenings/installations.
>
> This invitation is open to any artists who use "digital creativity" in
> broadest sense of the word.
>
> Please see http://www.music.arts.gla.ac.uk/events/CircusConference2001/
> for submission details.
>
> + + + + E X T E N D E D   D E A D L I N E + + + + + +
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> + + CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT + + CALL FOR PAPERS +  +
>
> CIRCUS 2001: NEW SYNERGIES IN DIGITAL CREATIVITY
>
>        INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR
> CONTENT INTEGRATED RESEARCH IN CREATIVE USER SYSTEMS
>
>      Glasgow,  20TH -22ND SEPTEMBER 2001
>
> Supported by the European Commission's Esprit programme
> under the CIRCUS project.
>
> Further details of the conference:
> http://www.music.arts.gla.ac.uk/events/CircusConference2001/
>
> Further details of the CIRCUS project:
> http://www.circusweb.org/
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> W e l c o m e   t o    t h e    C I R C U S   C o n f e r e n ce
>
>will present the findings of a three year research program which set out to
>explore the concept of creative pull; a model of practice which gives
>priority, even control, to the creative maker or user in the development of
>technological capability. During its lifetime CIRCUS  generated discussion
>on numerous topics giving rise to a number of successful interdisciplinary
>projects (all of which can be explored on our website www.circusweb.org)
>
>Throughout the life of the project a number of topics have continued to
>recur, they included:
>… the extensibility of the strategies of the open source movement among
>programmers to other domains which we called "open process"
>… the critical role of meta-data in managing new forms of creative practice
>as well as the classification of cultural artifacts through metadata
>relationships,
>… the institutional reform required to optimise the "networked creativity"
>which characterize the era of digital cultures.
>
>The  many discussion topics have clustered around a number of 'synergy
>themes 'which will form the conceptual structure of the conference
>… Description of culture: architectures of information
>… Interactivity and the future of the creative practice
>… Institutional supports for innovation or creative pull
>… Theory and methodology of digital creative production contexts
>.
>If you wish to submit a proposal to the conference please keep these themes
>in mind.
>
>At the conference, as well as presenting the key conclusions relating to
>each of the synergy themes. We would also like to invite submissions of
>papers or projects which might throw additional light on these themes.  And
>finally that critical open discussion of the project will bring the CIRCUS
>research program to a powerful set of conclusions.
>
>Website
>Consult our website <www,circusweb.org> to explore these ideas in more depth
>or just browse the numerous papers which have been delivered over the
>lifetime of the project. The site is an important outcome of CIRCUS. Not
>only providing access to accumulating CIRCUS content but importantly the
>site itself is a developing tool box for identifying and creating synergy.
>Keep visiting the site as at the end of July it will be again upgraded to
>include a new Metadata tool.
>The interactive content mapping tool will allow Circus members to create and
>browse an interactive, visual map of content generated through their
>research. This map will visualise patterns that emerge and evolve within the
>content based on user feedback.  Accumulations of user micro-decisions will
>form the basis of this system.  The visualisation element reveals underlying
>connections between content objects, allowing browsing from one content
>object to the next along these relationships. This will be done using a
>"bullseye graph" technique, which arrays related content objects according
>to the strength of the relationships. This is a dynamic approach which
>maximises interaction.  This desktop environment provides an easy way to
>move within the content space, integrating the graphical visualisation and
>the textual content.
>
>Future Research Outcome
>The researchers based at the Utrecht School of Art (as part of the Design
>for Digital Cultures Program) will continue to develop these synergy tools
>beyond the lifetime.
>The research thread: Modelling synergy within research groups through
>metadata analysis of content objects. This project proposes a model for the
>mining of content networks for the purpose of uncovering areas of potential
>synergy within research groups. The model we propose is based on the
>assumption that there are a number of implicit factors shared among content
>objects that, though real, cannot be measured directly (latent variables).
>These latent variables reveal themselves in the various aspects of content
>objects that can be observed and documented (manifest variables).  The
>application of this paradigm is an objective and democratic process rather
>than a hierarchical classification system.  To illustrate the data analysis
>feature of the model's implementation, Principal Component Analysis was
>applied to the metadata associated with Circus research papers. The proposed
>model is a potential answer to the challenge of applying architectures of
>information to the description of culture.  It may lead to the development
>of a virtually self-sustaining system that will foster synergistic
>collaboration among research groups, allowing ongoing interpretation of the
>hidden inter-relationships between content objects.
>
>- -----------------------------------------------------
>
>I M P O R T A N T   D A T E S
>
>15th July2001      Extended Paper/Presentation Deadline
>
>15th Aug. 2001     last early registration possible
>
>20th Sept. 2001     Conference in Glasgow
>
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>C A L L   F O R   P  A P E R S
>
>Papers and presentations are invited from the topics coming out of the
>conference themes.  Submission of papers will be done only in electronic
>form via pdf and ps. Proceedings will be on CD-ROM handed out at the
>conference. A selection of papers will be published in bookform. Submission
>includes information in the body of an email in text form, and an attachment
>of the full paper in pdf (Adobe) or postscript format. Any other formats of
>media or performance data will need to be discussed on a individual basis.
>(See contacts on website)
>>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:29:21 +0900
>From: Yukihiko Yoshida <yukihiko@sfc.keio.ac.jp>
>Subject: Critical Space
>
>Hello, list ---.
>
>The Japanese Magazine called "Criticalspace" has their
>webpage.
>
>Kojin Karatani is editor of this magazine.
>He is also organizer of NAM
>
>http://www.criticalspace.org/
>
>Best Wishse from TOKYO
>
>Yukihiko YOSHIDA
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:40:47 +1000
>From: karen eli0t <fragments@va.com.au>
>Subject: Media Circus is almost here!
>
>sorry for the x-posting...
>
>- -- http://www.antimedia.net/mediacircus/ --
>
>Media Circus is a gathering of people who create, consume, critique and
>distribute media content that challenges, questions, expresses and
>celebrates our culture,
>our society and the way we live.
>
>The event features a variety of participants including DJ Toupee, Geert
>Lovink, Jason Gibson, John Hughes, Lachlan Musicman, Leanne Minshull, MC
>Heroine,
>Naomi Klein, Nicole Biftek, PhucItUp, Scott Mcquire and many others...
>But the most important participant is YOU, so we'd love to see you here
>in Melbourne.
>
>Come to Melbourne, Australia on Thursday 12th July for the Media Circus
>Launch at the Public Office (100 Adderley St West Melbourne).
>The Media Circus 2001 will happen Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th July
>2001 at the Trades Hall, Carlton (Cnr Victoria & Lygon St).
>
>The program guide (which is still morphing) is available from
>www.antimedia.net/mediacircus/ - check it out for full details.
>
>Join the announce-list
>Send an email to mc-announce@lists.myspinach.org with the word
>'subscribe' in the subject line
>
>- --the full rant on the Media Circus--
>
>Media Circus is a gathering of people who create, consume, critique and
>distribute media content that challenges, questions, expresses and
>celebrates our culture,
>our society and the way we live.
>
>The media is everywhere. Deals, ideas, ideology, websites, porn,
>breaking news, films, positions vacant, knowledge, technologies. It's
>all around us. Just as we
>tend not to think about where milk comes from, we can forget to
>interrogate the processes through which media is made. Homogenised and
>pasteurised or
>non-genetically-modified? It's all mediated.
>
>There is little doubt that the large media corporations with their
>diverse interests exert an overwhelming amount of influence and control
>over the way our world
>works. This is reflected upon and critiqued by academics and others in
>privileged ghettos, but this detail is often contained inside their
>sanctioned structures.
>
>We know from our direct experience that the media manipulates and
>distorts reality, that it misrepresents and influences priorities and
>that it disempowers and
>attempts to confuse us with choices we do not ask for. And we know that
>the media should belong to us, the public, and not to a handful of
>transnational
>corporations.
>
>The Media Circus will include a broad group of people to develop
>networks and share and exchange information, knowledge, skills and
>tactics. We need to reclaim
>the media space and continue fostering a bottom-up media culture which
>will break us free from the illusions which attack and prototype us
>every day.
>
>We need to tell our own stories and what better place to empower
>ourselves than at the Circus. For the event to be a success, it is
>essential that the
>audience-presenter boundaries are broken. Everyone is a participant.
>
>The Media Circus was first held in Melbourne in September 1999. See the
>webbed archive. (http://www.antimedia.net/mediacircus/main99.htm)
>
>Media Circus 2001 will be happening in Melbourne on the 12th, 14th and
>15th July. 2001, and will be comprised of screenings, discussions,
>forums and
>exchanges. The days will be packed, but there will be spaces for
>autonomous gatherings and networking.
>
>It is hoped that this event will help create an origin from where more
>Media Circus events can be held to continue the development of a media
>culture in Melbourne
>and other networked locations.
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:44:37 +0930
>From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll@adelaide.edu.au>
>Subject: conference registration
>
>Registrations are now being received for:
>
>GLOBALISATION CONFERENCE <LIVE & ONLINE>
>
>Online Conference 13 July ­ 10 August
>Live Conference 26-29 July
>
>For further information and registration details
>http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/ARCHSS
>Only registered participants will be given access to the online
>conference site
>
>Online participants will include:
>                          -- slavoj zizek --
>                          -- michael hardt & antonio negri --
>                          -- jk gibson-graham --
>                          -- irene watson --
>                          -- patricia monture-angus --
>                          -- stelarc --
>		   -- james galbraith --
>		   -- mbulelo mzamane --
>
>
>Visiting Speakers will include (their papers will also be available
>online):
>                          -- dipesh chakrabarty --
>                          -- doug henwood --
>                          -- paul smith --
>                          -- marian pastor roces --
>                          -- stephen muecke --
>                          -- arif dirlik --
>                          -- sharon bell --
>                          -- amritjit singh --
>
>Speakers at Artspace (WEBCAST live online)
>                          -- coco fusco --
>                          -- rasheed araeen --
>                          -- nikos papastergiadis --
>
>Exhibitions
>                          -- hossein valamenesh at the art gallery of
>south australia --
>                          -- trash @ the experimental art foundation --
>
>Speakers in the Adelaide Festival of Ideas (12-15 July)
>                          -- vandana shiva --
>                          -- saskia sassen --
>                          -- naomi klein --
>
>- --
>Judy Barlow
>Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
>ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY SA 5005
>AUSTRALIA
>Tel: +61 8 8303 5186  Fax: +61 8 8303 4382
>Email: judy.barlow@adelaide.edu.au
>
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>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:17:30 +0200
>From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman@bi.no>
>Subject: Call for Papers - FLUXUS
>
>CFP - FLUXUS issue of Performance Research
>
>FLUXUS was an international community of artists, architects, 
>designers, and composers described as "the most radical and 
>experimental art movement of the 1960s." As a laboratory of 
>experimental art, Fluxus was the first locus of intermedia, concept 
>art, events, and video, and a central influence on performance art, 
>arte povera, and mail art.
>
>2002 will mark the 40th anniversary of the first Fluxus festival in 
>Wiesbaden, Germany. The journal Performance Research will mark the 
>occasion with a special issue.
>
>Guest editors Ken Friedman and Owen Smith will coordinate this issue. 
>The editors will welcome proposals and complete papers on any topic 
>or theme relevant to Fluxus, the Fluxus artists and composers, or 
>their work.
>
>
>Themes
>
>"Fluxus is what Fluxus does -- but no one knows whodunit." Emmett Williams
>
>"Fluxus is not a moment in history, or an art movement. Fluxus is a 
>way of doing things, a tradition, and a way of life and death." Dick 
>Higgins
>
>As a large and somewhat diffuse phenomenon, there can be no single 
>approach to Fluxus. The editors encourage a wide variety of topics, 
>themes, and approaches.
>
>A list of possible topics includes: art practice in Fluxus, art 
>theory in Fluxus, events, video, concept art and conceptual art, 
>intermedia, performance, artist books and periodicals, cooperative 
>housing, artist stamps, experimental film, Happenings, mail art, new 
>music.
>
>A partial list of Fluxus artists and composers includes: Ay-O, Joseph 
>Beuys, George Brecht, Phil Corner, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Al 
>Hansen, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Bengt af Klintberg, Milan 
>Knizak, Alison Knowles, Arthur Koepcke, Shigeko Kubota, George 
>Maciunas, Jackson Mac Low, Larry Miller, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, 
>Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Yoshimasa 
>Wada, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, and La Monte Young.
>
>Articles on other artists and themes are also welcome.
>
>
>Special theme:
>
>2002 also marks 30 years since the 1972-73 Fluxshoe toured England 
>with a series of performances, concerts, and exhibitions. This issue 
>of Performance Research will particularly welcome contributions that 
>focus on the historical and geographical activities centered on the 
>Fluxshoe, together with considerations of how it influenced the 
>British art of the years since.
>
>
>Overview
>
>Fluxus has been a laboratory characterized by George Maciunas's 
>notion of the "learning machine." The Fluxus research program has 
>been characterized by twelve ideas: globalism, the unity of art and 
>life, intermedia, experimentalism, chance, playfulness, simplicity, 
>implicativeness, exemplativism, specificity, presence in time and 
>musicality.
>
>These ideas describe the qualities and issues that characterize the 
>work of Fluxus. Each describes a "way of doing things." Together, 
>these twelve ideas form a picture of what Fluxus is and does.
>
>The implications of these ideas have been interesting and 
>occasionally startling. Fluxus has been a complex system of practices 
>and relationships. As a forum of philosophical and artistic practice, 
>Fluxus developed and demonstrated ideas that would later be seen in 
>such frameworks as multimedia, telecommunications, hypertext, 
>industrial design, urban planning, architecture, publishing, 
>philosophy, even management theory.
>
>This issue of Performance Research will explore the general and 
>individual aspects of Fluxus that have made it so lively, engaging, 
>and difficult to describe.
>
>
>About the editors.
>
>Ken Friedman was an active participant in Fluxus, as an artist since 
>1966, as director of Fluxus West for a decade, and as editor of The 
>Fluxus Reader for Academy Press. Friedman is associate professor of 
>leadership and strategic design at the Norwegian School of 
>Management. Owen Smith is an art historian and curator specializing 
>in intermedia and multimedia art forms. His book, Fluxus: History of 
>an Attitude, is published by San Diego State University Press. Smith 
>is associate professor of art history at University of Maine.
>
>
>Deadlines
>
>Proposals and full text articles welcome to 1 September 2001
>
>Final selection by 15 October 2001
>
>Completed articles and manuscripts due by 15 December 2001
>
>
>Proposals or complete articles welcome
>
>Please send article proposals to Owen Smith at
>
><ofsmith@maine.edu>
>
>Completed articles or extensive drafts are also welcome.
>
>Proposals and articles may be sent in email form and as attachments 
>in Microsoft Word.
>
>This issue will be richly illustrated. Proposals or complete articles 
>should indicate illustrations and how they will be presented. The 
>initial proposal or article need not include the actual 
>illustrations. These will be planned after articles are selected.
>
>General questions may be directed to Owen Smith or to Ken Friedman at
>
><ken.friedman@bi.no>
>
>
>
>
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